Category: Freelancing & Productivity
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WordPress Automation that Actually Works
The WordPress Deployment Problem Nobody Talks About Here’s what most WordPress agencies won’t tell you: deployment is a nightmare. Sure — WordPress powers ~43% of the web — but behind those millions of sites lies a dirty secret: most teams are still deploying like it’s 2010. FTP uploads, manual database exports/imports, hoping you remembered to update…
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Building a Deal Distribution Automation System: From Manual Chaos to One-Click Campaigns
The Challenge: Investment Deal Distribution at Scale Imagine you’re managing an investment deal that needs to reach hundreds of potential investors. Each investor needs: Researching startups and mapping corresponding markets was traditionally a very manual, time-consuming, and imprecise process, and the same holds for investment deal distribution. The M&A industry is known to be challenging, partially…
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What I Learned Leading a Startup Dev Team
When I joined a small blockchain startup in Reno, Nevada, I didn’t think I’d end up leading the team that built its core web application. I just wanted to build better React apps. Two years later, I’d learned lessons about leadership, communication, and simplicity that reshaped how I think about software development. Building in the…
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Paired Programming with Claude
Part of the “Conversations with AI” series where I share interesting and useful discussions with AI assistants. These conversations are lightly edited for clarity. The Problem Now that I’ve posted to my blog over ten times, I ran into the scaling issue of only seeing the ten most recent posts on my homepage. When requesting…
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What I’m doing now – October 2024
I’m now a fourth-grade teacher in Shanghai, China. This is a significant career shift from software development that I’m glad to be embracing. At the end of 2023, I found myself on the job hunt unexpectedly. Though I wouldn’t have chosen it, it also served as a period of reflection that I welcomed. During this…
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What I’m doing now (posted 2/1/2024)
Still living in Fort Collins and loving it. Winter is always a great season for productivity and I’m programming at least six days a week. Daily programming usually consists of adding features to my new client platform, small enhancements to other parts of this website, or trying some entirely new tech thing to keep life…
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Why I Almost Bought a Gym
Last year I developed one old belief and one new one. The old one is that it is not necessary to be an employee in exchange for a good life. Good lives are lived in abundance all over the world, especially in the United States. Yet, it remains clear that predictable income through gainful employment…
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The Types of Work I Do
I’ve been on a journey to realize my full potential as a young person. I’ve done all the work that you’d think a twenty-something who would make the former statement does. I listen to audio books and tell people I “read”. I pontificate on the meaning of life. I even meditate once a month just…